Tag: metrics

In order to understand how fast your website is, we need some numbers. We call these fancy numbers performance metrics, objective measures that we can track over time. We can track them for seasonality as well as website traffic and growth. But we can also track them for feature and application changes based on deployments to see if new code has caused perfermance to improve or degrade.

Some useful business or application performance metrics include:

user registrations

accounts sold

widgets sold

user interactions & social metrics

so-called gamification, ratings & related

We also want to capture lower-level system metrics with a tool like Cacti, Ganglia, Munin, OpenNMS, Zabbix or similar:

cpu

memory

disk

network

load average

Along with the basic system level metrics you’ll want to collect some at the database level such as: